Pierre Poilievre

[Taxation, December 3rd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister created all of those problems. A food program that has not served a single meal or a temporary, tiny 10¢ tax cut on a bag of potato chips will not fix what he broke, especially considering that his next plan is to quadruple the carbon tax to 61¢ a litre.

We can just picture President-elect Trump calling our businesses, encouraging them to leave Canada and set up south of the border where there is no carbon tax and where other taxes are falling.

Again, it is clear why the incoming American president wants to take our jobs. Why does the Prime Minister keep helping him do it?

[Taxation, December 3rd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, breaking things is not responsible, and that is what the Prime Minister has been doing for nine years. My job is not to cover that up for him.

In fact, he has broken our economy. He has doubled the cost of housing, doubled the national debt and doubled trouble across our economy with higher taxes on working Canadians. He is in the process of raising taxes on investment and energy right now, while an American incoming president wants to take our jobs and businesses.

It is understandable why President-elect Trump wants Canadian jobs to go south, but why does the Prime Minister want to help him do it?

[The Economy, December 3rd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, whether one thinks that President-elect Trump's tariff threats are a negotiating tactic or a real plan, what we do know is what we can control, and the Prime Minister has lost control of everything. He has lost control of the borders, lost control of immigration, lost control of spending and the deficit, lost control of inflation and housing costs, and lost control of his own caucus. This has put Canada in an unbearably weak position.

Will the Prime Minister reverse all the damage he has done, or will he just call a carbon tax election so we can do it for him?

[The Economy, December 3rd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has given President-elect Trump some big gifts. Tax hikes, the doubling of our debt, and the bureaucracy that is holding up our natural resources projects have sent $500 billion in net Canadian investments to the United States to create jobs for Americans. In the meantime, Canadians' personal income, which used to be on par with Americans', is now $20,000 lower.

Will the Prime Minister reverse his destructive policies to fix what he has broken?

[The Economy, December 3rd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, no matter what we think of Mr. Trump's tariff threats, whether it is a negotiating tactic or a real plan, we should focus on what we can control. The Prime Minister has lost control. He has lost control of the borders. He has lost control of immigration. He has lost control of spending. Canadians are suffering in these difficult times.

Will the Prime Minister reverse his decisions to fix the damage he has done?

[Carbon Pricing, December 2nd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, over the last five years, food prices in Canada have increased 37% faster than in the United States. That gap opened after the introduction of the carbon tax, which this government now, with the NDP's help, wants to quadruple. The consequence is that in the last four years, food bank use in Ontario is up 86%, and one in four children go to school hungry, according to this government's own data.

Why will the government not axe this crazy plan to quadruple the carbon tax? In fact, why not axe the tax altogether?

[Carbon Pricing, December 2nd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, our members champion their constituents who are eligible for assistance, not 77,000 companies that should not have received the $3.5 billion in misspent dollars, all while Canadians are starving.

Today, the hunger report is out from Feed Ontario, and there have been one million Ontarians who lined up seven million times at the food bank after the Prime Minister brought in a carbon tax on the truckers and farmers who bring us our food.

When will the Liberals axe the tax?

[Public Services and Procurement, December 2nd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, there is more proof today that the weak Prime Minister has lost control of spending.

The Auditor General reports that the Prime Minister's government gave out $3.5 billion of so-called CEBA loans to companies that did not qualify, a total of 77,000 of them. That is 10% of all recipients. On top of that, the Liberal government then gave a massive implementation contract to high-priced consultants at Accenture, which cost $200 million and farmed out a lot of the work to Brazil.

Is it not more proof that the Prime Minister is not worth the cost or the corruption?

[Public Services and Procurement, December 2nd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, Canadians know now that I was right. Rather than helping businesses in need that qualified for the money, the government wasted $3.5 billion. What is more, it grew the bureaucracy by 40% to administer programs. To top it all off, the government spent $200 million to hire the Accenture consulting firm, which provided most of its work from Brazil.

Why is it always consultants, bureaucrats and the corrupt who get money from this government?

[Public Services and Procurement, December 2nd, 2024]

Mr. Speaker, today, we have even more proof that the Prime Minister has lost control over spending. The Auditor General has confirmed that this Liberal government gave $3.5 billion in CEBA loans to companies that did not qualify. Fully 10%, or 77,000, of those businesses were not eligible. The whole thing was handled by the Accenture consulting firm, which cost $200 million more.

Is that not proof that this Prime Minister is not worth the cost or the corruption?